(February 24, 2014 at 10:38 am)FreeTony Wrote: It seems it is just a gullibility test, and if you pass you get to the real part?I think the first part of this is accurate, in that it has become a gullibility test. By making the final reward and punishment so excessive, a person is less likely to worry about the details. An eternity in paradise, or an eternity in hell? Many people will simply buy that lottery ticket rather than figure out if there's actually going to be a drawing or not.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
